Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-06-07
NElRING THE END.
The Evidence in the Miller
Trial Complete.
Futile Efforts Of the Defense
TO Break the Chsin.
Attsnpts to Impeseh witnass Little
Jsfk-strong Rvidenee In Re-
buttal = hlIler's Movements
On the Eventual
Morning.

The Hfth day Of The Miller trial va
sesopisd By the defense principally /.
attempts TO break the f1gos Of the dam
sEisR testimony Of Little Jack. Thea.
Efforts, however, were Dos by any mean,
sssoes1fsL The prosecution presented
70 febuiisl strong evidence concerning
hiIisI's movements 90 the morning Of
February ssh. TIE testimony vas sub
ssantially as follows:
hE. P0vsil-I ksvs kaown LitsI.
JACK three Or f0aF years. I had a con
FsEsation With Little Jsok Ia Jane, lssS
90 boom. daring which be told me be
@aged on Mercer Island all Of the night
Of sunday, February 7th, leaving thers
% Monday sofni1Q. He would net
answer when asked him what be saw
Monday morning. did not tell Little
5sek that II be pointed cot the man he
saw % the lake be would be locked 40. 1
ted Little Jack n be told ANYTHING
BET The truth al Port Townssnd ~
You'd get locked up. lived on Like
Warrington IN Fsbraary. 1896. I sent
Oo1eay 70 hilleF's place OF the evening
q February II b. II takes me from An
hour 70 an hour and ihree-qusFters 10
fgs from my place 90 Fleabure, or
Phinney landing. froEed from Mil
gs 70 tue south point Of the island in
l9a one boar and half. This was last
1911, pat what onth do not know. In
tspiy 70 further question, the witness
sAlo TOE trip Was made this year. / did
o9t tsu Congsy whom theP we're going
y arrest, ~ | did not know. / was
!sienaly wHh the Miller family al that
ane. an 2 fast rover. 1 never b.
Iere s0ld Of Little Jack staying all night
% We Island, DOT even when / testified
esIofe. have made several voluntary
sm1avits IN behalf Of defend ant in this
CSC, bal have done nothing for money.
Wm. sooerbaFR-I am a shorthand
reporter and took testimony Of LATHE
yaek 81 Port Townsend. He tsstifisd
taae Be say tbs mao In the boat az half
past g. George Colman testified that
fe saVt the DO on the lake that Sunday
evening" about half al hour. He also
tsstined a. tbs milking occupied an
hoaF and half, add that be vas done
before dark. Tbs interpreter 1t Port
Towns nd was a white man, and one Of
ne Indians complained that he did not
eeffectiy interpret the Teplies. The
Indians also gave their testimony In
Chiaook.
w. d. Wood am q shorthand re-
porter aud tsok testimony al prelimi.
nary Examination. Allie Aay Olds ties
nnsd then that II seemed 20 her that
~. MAhoney asked her II u was not
zoe that they sac floating by. She at
nAAmnkH a. H.. -
hitle Soile they both saw that 10 WIS a
Boat. Dan Mahoney then testified that
she person IN the boat February Sth
appeared 20 be a woman. The person
Sss meiiied up and dressed as woman.
Fred Caflisie-I know w. +. Powell
aud Little Jack. In June, 1886, heard
Asittis Jack tell hr. P0well. one evening
- supper. that. after the hunting expe-
Dillon 10 Mercer Island. be left the
Island on Monday morning at s or
seioek' lie did Rot saJ he stayed on the
Island all night Powell asked him IL
ns saw anything on the island. and J sex
Iafaed sway without replying. Powell
eaid' Jack, y0u know you kllled Col
MAJ and Jack left his supprF par
uaHy nneaten, turned away aud vent
% Without replying. A peculiarly Of
ssek vas an tvadlne manner. giving re-
plles OF Il don't know" OF saying 10th
lnR 81 all. tsld Mr.. Powell believed
Little Jack knew something absut the
masdeF. Powell tried TO pump him.
also tried 10 pump Little Jack. Powell
deaf In one ear, but can hear dis
unetly At short distances. never spoke
70 Mr. Powell about this matter, not
having special interest Ia IL.
Little Witness testified that be
lad no conversation with Powell IN the
presence OF Carlisle At supper in Jane,
lsd6. When be talked With Powell no
oDe else vas present. He had supper
lhefe, bat did not stay over night. Mr..
FoSell did not ask when ne left the
Island. He said nothing Of the kiEd 90
Nc. Powell. Mr.. Powell lies about him.
fosell only asked him II be vas on the
island Sunday. He never told hirn
he left the island bet seen 5 aud Q
o'clock on Monday morning,
Nike MasselAy, q German, e. II Pc
tetson, interprster-In February 1850.
lived on Mercer Island. sav Indians
haaling on the island one sunday fore
noon. There we're three or four eanOes
saS the same Indians near the island
About o'clock on Monday morning.
" was last year in summer when this
occurred. six or ssveH weeks after
esifd Of Colman being shot. The tes-
nmohy Of this witness sas unintslliRi-
oss and "a, ordered stricken OUT
aohn Miiler-February 7th, lss6. was
On my brothers place, end also At my
tataeF's In the evening vent 30 New
eassie. Josie and Georgia went part of
Zoe way With me. From the coal land
lne my brother William went with me
% Newcastle. Ny brother is now in the
insane asylam. We applied TO Mrs.
s'arSey for lodgings. she sent "a 10
Noopet's. We had no money, aud so
vent out little way from The stsFe and
Amprd al night We could get no
SoFk az Newcastle. We went 20 SqaAk
taisy aHxi IN FaibR, starting about
eeiock. We vent 10 Dan Hnghes's
Piaoe, about eight miles from Newcastle.
seefe ve stayed uutil mex, day. We
tata returned TO fathers. I then went
= ieiu Evans place, hear Lave Wash
lnssoh, where | stayed until SATURDAY.,
sosn, bearing Of nay fathers arrest,
Ssee bach. My father, think. bad
Niseeestef rifle, which I think I saw
eas saturday. | be lrd they wanted me.
Aha came 90 town and surrendered
myseu. Was in jail two weeks.
eesef sav the rife in the kitchen OF
FNslor. Il was usually kept In the milk
m have sen my father use u In
taatlhg ! do not know whether uy
aatesr ever ssw the rifle or not. THIS
Wahehesier was = 4S 90. Never told
yese this rifle was lost. and never
ssaia be fsund. DO not knos thai
sAsd anyone fer work while in New
ue OF Squak Valley, I returned
.sae At exactly half past I Sunday
ssnoon. FebraaFy 7th. Father Sas
aene then. got up 81 ; o'clock
Saay morning, had breakfast 81 =,
'1sef a. T. aud left fathers house 4 90
alaaies after half pasi l. vas .
rs % Aee on the l5th u February
- born 10 New York State. Do not
80 where, Mrs. Miller Is rot NY
ssr l do net know what my
1910 maiden name VS.. l DO unt
-. q any ancles Of mine. d. uss
sS Hhsta be Winchester ride IL.
eAss ssarchea for n.
a. fullsr-i lived 10 Raatan "
81 2e. M / knew Little JA,k. aud
.A M | VAS With Frank DushAfm
"a We found the clothes Of Colm2n
- I.en. DashaFm ssd ! Weus 20
indian camp as Renton early IN